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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 79902" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>Dump the Rockchucker, too much for .243 bore size and nothing but hassles making brass.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Jb, go with the 6br.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday, I was out hunting p-dogs in THE hottest town I have ever shot in. The action was blistering for 10 hours straight and we splattered about 80-90 pdogs. We could have gotten more but we had to keep waiting for the barrels on our 8 guns to cool down. We knew it was going to be fast paced action and we knew the temp was going to be 90 degrees, so we left the 6mm-284 and the 6.5-284 home. Truth be told, anything burning more than 45 grains of powder in that situation would have been an absolute waste of barrel steel. In high volume shooting, small case capacities are king, and small capacities teamed with high bc bullets are even mightier.</p><p></p><p>I was able to shoot at pdogs with high order effeciency out to 900 yards (could have even gone further if the town was long enough) with my 6br improved fast twist and only burn 30.5 grains of powder. I could shoot 3 times as many rounds before cooling than the 22-250 AI or swift could shoot and it was actually easier to connect on the long dogs with it because of the .524 bc of the 95 grain Berger VLD bullet.</p><p></p><p>All in all, if I was going to go back to shooting pdogs mainly instead of rockchucks, I would build 4 or 5 6br's in an 8 twist and alternate them when the action gets fast.</p><p></p><p>Now for rockchucks, the air is usually 30 degrees cooler and the shooting isn't quite as fast paced because of lesser targets so the 6-284 works great. So basically, you have to know your style of hunting and what kind of targets you'll be shooting to let you make the best choice. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 79902, member: 2852"] Dump the Rockchucker, too much for .243 bore size and nothing but hassles making brass. I agree with Jb, go with the 6br. Yesterday, I was out hunting p-dogs in THE hottest town I have ever shot in. The action was blistering for 10 hours straight and we splattered about 80-90 pdogs. We could have gotten more but we had to keep waiting for the barrels on our 8 guns to cool down. We knew it was going to be fast paced action and we knew the temp was going to be 90 degrees, so we left the 6mm-284 and the 6.5-284 home. Truth be told, anything burning more than 45 grains of powder in that situation would have been an absolute waste of barrel steel. In high volume shooting, small case capacities are king, and small capacities teamed with high bc bullets are even mightier. I was able to shoot at pdogs with high order effeciency out to 900 yards (could have even gone further if the town was long enough) with my 6br improved fast twist and only burn 30.5 grains of powder. I could shoot 3 times as many rounds before cooling than the 22-250 AI or swift could shoot and it was actually easier to connect on the long dogs with it because of the .524 bc of the 95 grain Berger VLD bullet. All in all, if I was going to go back to shooting pdogs mainly instead of rockchucks, I would build 4 or 5 6br's in an 8 twist and alternate them when the action gets fast. Now for rockchucks, the air is usually 30 degrees cooler and the shooting isn't quite as fast paced because of lesser targets so the 6-284 works great. So basically, you have to know your style of hunting and what kind of targets you'll be shooting to let you make the best choice. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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